OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Two Omaha police officers involved in the death last month of a mentally ill man who had been shocked with a police stun gun a dozen times are no longer employed by the city.

An attorney for the city confirmed Thursday that Scotty Payne and Ryan McClarty are no longer with the Omaha Police Department. Police Chief Todd Schmaderer had recommended last month that both Payne and McClarty be fired for their conduct involving 29-year-old Zachary Bearheels.

Police say Bearheels died June 5 after being shocked 12 times with a Taser, punched and dragged by his hair by the officers. Police say they encountered Bearheels after responding to a disturbance call at a convenience store.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who’d worked at an Omaha wine and spirits store has taken a plea deal in a gift-card scheme.

Court records say 29-year-old Brenton McLaurine pleaded no contest last week to one felony theft count. Prosecutors dropped a second count in exchange. His sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 7.

Records say McLaurine was fired from the Village Pointe Brix store in May 2016. The records say the manager found multiple gift cards that had balances in the thousands of dollars, including one that reached more than $68,000. The company’s software let employees add money to gift cards through cash transactions and then void them, leaving the totals on the cards.

The two Brix stores closed in January, leaving customers with gift cards they couldn’t redeem.

BRUNSWICK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a South Dakota teenager who died after a car accident in northeast Nebraska.

He’s been identified as 16-year-old Jordan Rossiter, who lived in Yankton.

The accident was reported around 6 a.m. Monday, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) southwest of Brunswick. The Antelope County Sheriff’s Office says the car was northbound on Nebraska Highway 14 when it ran off the roadway into the west ditch and rolled before hitting a tree.

The Sheriff’s Office says Rossiter died later at Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk.

ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — A plastic surgeon has determined what caused a mysterious head wound on a bald eagle found in southeast Nebraska.

Fishermen spotted the bird on the ground south of Syracuse last month. There were no feathers on its head — just a scab. They reported the eagle to a state conservation officer, who took it to Fontenelle Forest’s Raptor Recovery center near Elmwood.

Dr. Coleen Stice removed the scab from the eagle’s head Sunday. Stice said the wound was a burn, possible suffered from the bird hitting an electrical wire.

Recovery center officials plan for Stice to attempt a skin graft on the eagle in a couple of weeks. They also say the bird is regaining its strength.

PIERCE, Neb. (AP) — A pilot has been flown to an Iowa hospital after the crash of his crop-dusting plane in northeast Nebraska.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says first responders were sent around 2 p.m. Tuesday to a field 7 miles (12 kilometers) west and 2 miles (3 kilometers) north of Pierce. The plane was spraying fields before the crash.

The unidentified pilot was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City for treatment. The Sheriff’s Office says the plane is owned by Bloomfield Ag & Aerial Service.

The crash cause is being investigated.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials say 170 or so Lincoln jobs will be lost with the closing of another call center.

The layoffs are scheduled to continue into August at Dr. Leonard’s Healthcare Corp., which is based in Edison, New Jersey. The company president, Joseph Albanese, said Tuesday that the company is consolidating its call centers. It has one in Edison and one in Cleveland, plus another offshore. Dr. Leonard’s is a catalog and online retailer.

It’s the second major call center to close in Lincoln this year. Verizon Wireless shuttered its customer service center in March, eliminating 320 jobs.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha City Council has approved a special occupation tax for the under-construction Capitol District.

Tuesday’s vote makes the mixed-use development the city’s first “enhanced employment district.” Such districts allow taxes to be collected from consumers in a certain area to fund public infrastructure and other development.

The district ordinance outlines a 0.5 percent tax on retail purchases and a 0.3 percent tax at some businesses south of the district.

Councilwoman Aimee Melton was the only dissenting vote, saying she supports the development but not the tax.

Developer Mike Moylan expects about $250,000 to be collected through the tax each year.

The tax will take effect in August, around the same time the district’s hotel will open.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Continued commitment at the state psychiatric hospital has been ordered for a Lincoln man found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2006 slaying of a friend.

A judge ordered Tuesday that 29-year-old Shane Tilley again be allowed to walk — under staff supervision and while wearing a GPS monitor — around the grounds at the Lincoln Regional Center. Tilley fled the center on July 21, 2010, and was apprehended about eight hours later.

Tilley was found not guilty in the January 2006 stabbing death of a friend, Andy Lubben. Police found Tilley at his apartment, naked and uttering nonsensical words. He had knife wounds to his chest and neck, apparently self-inflicted.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man and woman accused of abusing their adopted child have pleaded no contest to five counts of negligent child abuse resulting in injury.

Stephen Bauer and Megan Finlan entered the pleas Wednesday. The pair had faced more serious charges of intentional child abuse resulting in serious injury.

The two were first arrested in 2015, when police were called to an Omaha elementary school for a report of a 7-year-old boy covered in scratches and bruises. Prosecutors say he was severely underweight and told police that Bauer and Finlan withheld food from him as punishment. He was also locked for days at a time in a room, with no access to a bathroom.

Bauer and Finlan each face up to 25 years in prison when they’re sentenced Sept. 15.